MD-PhD Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

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MD-PhD-specific Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

 

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, N.H.
MD-PhD Undergraduate Summer (MPUS) Fellowship

Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics

Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston, MA
Harvard/MIT Equitable Access to Research Training (HEART) MD–PhD Summer Program

Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Ind.
Undergraduate Research for Prospective Physician-Scientists and Physician-Engineers

Ohio State University Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio
ASPIRE Medical Research Program

State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Physician Scientist Program (SURF-PS)

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Ala.
Summer in Biological Sciences (SIBS) Undergraduate Research Program

Companion program for URM
Preparation for Graduate and Medical Education (PARAdiGM) Program

University of California San Diego
San Diego, Calif.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program

University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
The UCSD MSTP Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio 
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City, Iowa
Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research (SUMR) Program

University of Minnesota Medical School Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minn.
Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, N.Y.
MSTP Summer Scholars Program

University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Medicine & Public Health
Madison, WI
MSTP Summer Scholars Program

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tenn
Vanderbilt MSTP Summer Research Program

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
St. Louis, Mo.
MSTP ACCESS Program

Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering
New York, N.Y.
Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program

Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, N.Y.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Augusta University
Augusta, Ga.
Summer Student Training and Research (STAR)

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Summer Medical and Research Training (SMART) Program

Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Mass.
Summer Student Training and Research (STAR)

Brigham and Women's Hospital (in collaboration with Harvard-affiliated hospitals)
Boston, Mass.
Harvard Summer Research Program in Kidney Medicine

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Case Summer Research Programs

Children's Hospital Research Foundation of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
Division of Developmental Biology
Undergraduate Summer Student Program

City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute
Duarte, Calif.
Eugene and Ruth Roberts Summer Student Academy

Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Champaign, Ill.
Summer Research Opportunities Program

Creighton University
Omaha, Neb.
Undergraduate Biomedical Research Training Program

Dell Medical School - The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Dell Medical School’s LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes’ Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pa.
Biomedical Graduate Studies-Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Georgia State University, Neuroscience Institute
Atlanta, Ga
B&B Summer Scholars Program

Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School
New York, N.Y.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Harvard Medical School
Boston, Mass.
Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP)

Hofstra North Shore/LIJ School of Medicine 
Manhasset, N.Y.
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Student Intern Program 

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Md.
Summer Internship Program (SIP)

Keck Graduate Institute
Claremont, Calif.
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program

Louisiana State Health Sciences Center
Shreveport Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience
Shreveport, La.
Summer Undergraduate Pharmacology Experience in Research Program (SUPER)

Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine 
Chicago, Ill.
Undergraduate Summer Research Program, Department of Microbiology & Immunology 
Summer Undergraduate Research program, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Scarborough, Maine
Summer Student Research Program at main Medical Center Research Institute

Massachusetts General Hospital Multicultural Affairs Office
Boston, Mass.
Summer Research Trainee Program

Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisc.
Summer Program for Undergraduate Research
Summer Enrichment Programs

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, S.C.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, N.Y.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
Medical Student Summer Fellowship Research Program
Molecular Imaging Summer Program (MISP)

Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation
Minneapolis, Minn.
Summer Research Internships in Clinical Cardiology

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, N.Y.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Md.
Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research

New York University School of Medicine
New York, N.Y.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Evanston, Ill.
Summer Research Opportunity Program

Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Ore.
Summer Research Programs

Penn State University, College of Medicine
Hershey, Pa.
SURIP – Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program
STEP-UP - Short-Term Educational Program for Underrepresented Persons
SURF – American Heart Association Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, Calif.
Stanford Summer Research Program (SSRP)/Amgen Scholars

Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Stony Brook, NY
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program

Texas A&M University College of Medicine
Bryan, Texas
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 
Lubbock, Texas
Summer Accelerated Biomedical Research (SABR) Program 

Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pa.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Tufts University
Boston, Mass.
Sackler School Summer Research Programs

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Ala.
Summer Research Programs for Undergraduates

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Summer Undergraduate Research Program
BLAISER Program

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR
Summer Research Fellowships for Undergraduate Students
UAMS Summer Undergraduate Research Program to Increase Diversity in Research

University at Buffalo (SUNY) School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Buffalo, N.Y.
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)

University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Irvine, CA
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Summer Programs for Undergraduate Research

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Summer Research Training Program

University of Chicago
Chicago. Ill.
The Leadership Alliance & The University of Chicago Summer Research Early Identification Program
The Pritzker School of Medicine Experience in Research (PSOMER)

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colo.
Graduate Experience for Multicultural Students (GEMS)

University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, Conn.
Undergraduate Summer Research

University of Georgia
Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute
Athens, Ga.
Summer Undergraduate Fellows

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) 

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kan.
Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Ky.
NSF-REU: Summer Program in the Biomedical Sciences

University of Louisville School of Medicine
Louisville, Ky.
Cancer Biology Training Program

University of Maryland
Baltimore, Md.
Office of Student Research

University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, Mass.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University
New Brunswick, N.J.
Undergraduate Summer Research

University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
UM-SMART Undergrad Summer Program

University of Minnesota
Twin Cities, Minn.
Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (LSSURP)

University of Mississippi
Jackson, Miss.
Summer Research Internship in Medical Sciences

University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
Summer Research Internship in Medical Sciences

University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Neb.
Undergraduate Summer Research Program

University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Neb.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Albuquerque, N.M.
Undergraduate Pipeline Network Summer Research Program

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Native American Center for Health Research Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
Stephenson Cancer Center Summer Undergraduate Program

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
Summer Undergraduate Internship Program (SUIP)
Undergraduate Clinical Scholars Program

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
Premedical Academic Enrichment Program
MIDAS summer Research Opportunity
Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities
Training and Experimentation in Computational Biology

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, N.Y.
MSTP Summer Scholars
Strong Children’s Research Center Summer Program

University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston
Houston, Texas
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Smithville, Texas
Summer Program in Cancer Research

University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas
Computational Cancer Biology Training Program
Neuroscience Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Summer Internship in Tropical Diseases Research

University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
GSBS Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Native American Summer Research Internship (NARI)

University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Va.
Minority Health International Research Training Program (MHIRT)
Summer Research Internship Program

University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, WA
University of Washington Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisc.
Integrated Biological Sciences Summer Research Program
Summer Research Opportunity Programs

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Va.
Summer Research in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health Epidemiology (MIDPH) 

Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Summer Research Opportunities Program

Washington University
St. Louis, Mo.
BioMedRAP
AMGEN Scholars Program
MSTP ACCESS Program

Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, Mich.
SURE Programs

West Virigina Univeristy
Morgantown, WV
MD/PhD Summer Research Internship

Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering
New York, N.Y.
Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program
Weill Travelers Summer Research Fellowship Program
Computational Biology Summer Program (CBSP)
Chemical Biology Summer Program (ChBSP)
Engineering Summer Program (ESP)

Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Conn.
NIH-NIDDK/KUH Yale Summer Research Fellowship for Undergraduate Students
BioMed Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

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